In a brief filed with the full panel of the Supreme Judicial Court , lawyers for Kelsey Fitzsimmons decried the order sending her to jail as “chilling, heartless, and legally baseless.”

Fitzsimmons, a North Andover police officer, is accused of aiming a gun at a fellow officer serving her a restraining order obtained by her fiancé on June 30. She denies aiming the gun at the officer who shot her in the chest, and has claimed she attempted suicide .

In September, Fitzsimmons was sent to jail after a superior court judge reversed a previous order that had allowed her release on conditions . The judge did so after Fitzsimmons’ lawyers said she couldn’t complete court-ordered alcohol testing without pain. Since then, Fitzsimmons and her team have sought to undo the judge’s orde

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